Thank you for those who have still been shopping at our store despite the closing of our surrounding neighbors. We appreciate your business SO SO SO much and really can’t express our gratitude for those of you who have chosen our locally owned shop over big box retailers and online.

Our goal moving forward is to listen more to how we can continue to serve you better and give you what you want. We will be releasing a series of surveys that will give you a chance to tell us directly what you are loving and what we can work on. Our first focus is on WORKSHOPS- since we know how much our customers love learning new things and our loyal, serial-workshop-takers are craving some new choices.

We are so excited to welcome new instructor: Kara McCutchen of Idaho Adventures Art who will teaching her wonderful watercolor beginner class- we took it, and it’s good stuff guys.

P+P has teamed up with Lit & co Candles for the yummiest smelling workshop ever!

Join us for a candle-making workshop over at Lit & Co.’s amazing workshop space! While your candles are setting, enjoy a mini version of the popular Paperie + Pen freestyle lettering class with a holiday twist. Nichole will be teaching typography basics and easy ways for beginners to make beautiful letters for mindfully. For the class project, we will be making one-of-a-kind holiday gift tags using a variety of fun mediums.
Perfect idea for a gift or date night!

We can’t even tell you how overjoyed we are to have Courtney Casper Letters come all the way down from Eastern Washington to teach lettering in our space! This is a new medium that we have never had the pleasure of hosting- and we are ready to get our hands inky as Courtney teaches us her ways!! Saturday, April 8th, 2017 at 10:00am @ Paperie + Pen

This class is for students of all skill level wanting to learn the art of aquabrush + ink lettering!

included in workshop:

workbook + practice pages

paper

aquabrush

india ink

blank card (make a love note!)

refreshments

There will be time to ask questions individually, get one on one instruction, practice, and increase your hand lettering skill level! That being said, class spots are limited- so we suggest you snag yours NOW!

Lisa Caillet-Bois is an artist, designer and entrepreneur originally from England. Guided by a love of creativity, branding and colour, Lisa loves to make things. After earning her BA in Product and Furniture Design at Ravensbourne in London, Lisa’s first career path involved two of her passions, environmental work and the organic food industry. Spanning the course of 8 years, Lisa’s first entrepreneurial pursuit, Happy Kitchen, was a pioneering bakery, catering business, restaurant and wholesale production facility. Based in London, Happy Kitchen supplied companies (including The Hub, Greenpeace, Action Against Hunger, Coca Cola, Whole Foods) and hundreds of shops all over Europe with handmade products. As an entrepreneur with a deep respect for the planet, she used the organization as a tool for social and environmental good in schools all over the city and in the wider London community. This drew recognition from the Mayor of London, resulting in an appointment as a 2010 London Leader, amongst many other awards. Lisa has been painting since she was a child and comes from a long lineage of artists (her father, grandfather and great grandfather were all artists). Lisa’s love of travel and the earth has allowed her the good fortune to paint some of the world’s most wild and beautiful landscapes, the core source of inspiration for her art. During travels in 2012, Lisa met her now husband, leading to a move to Venice Beach, California. Inspired by the sun, sand and surf, Lisa had the idea to reimagine her art as wearable fashion, resulting in the birth of her second entrepreneurial pursuit, ‘LCB’.

Thank you to everyone who came out for our YEAR TWO at The Village at Meridian ! We are so thankful for our friends, family, and loyal customers who care about supporting our little local business! This was a party to celebrate YOU! We love you!!!

Do you love Paperie + Pen? Are you competitive to the core? Do you like BEER, MUSIC, and FREE STUFF? Do you LOOOOOOVE Proof Eyewear? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you’re not going to want to miss #PAPERPARTYOMG 2016! It’s our 2nd anniversary of having our store in the beautiful Village at Meridian and we like any reason to celebrate!

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29th 4pm-9pm

Enter our Pinewood Derby and come by our shop OR Proof Eyewear Boise Flagship store in BODO to pick up your kit. If you already have a derby car of your own, feel free to bring it as long as it follows all of our rules and regs. See below.

Pre-Register online or in-store until 5pm on the night of the event.

CA$H PRIZE GOES TO 1st Place Winner!

Live Music by Ruby and Jun, Brews by Payette, Noise by Adam Eberle of Directly Driven, and of course, tons of prizes from P+P, Proof Eyewear, Village at Meridian, Payette and more.

Our intro DSLR workshop is back by popular demand — but it’s BIGGER & BETTER! This time, it’s going to be at The Owyhee it’s pretty much all day, lunch is served and you’ll get tons of hands on learning and shooting. Hop on over to our sister company Ampersand Studios and sign up!

$75 price goes up on 10/15! Get at it!!! 📷

Did you recently (6 years ago) get a new DSLR camera and lens kit from Costco? Are you afraid to experiment with manual settings because you think you’ve found your happy place in that little green square of [A]wesome? Do you just want to take great pictures of your kids, your cat, or your precious moments figurine collection? We can help!

This class has been widely requested and we’ve put together a super FUN, enlightening crash course for you to take your photos from crappy to happy and your insta feed will soon be getting double tapped faster than a…. well nevermind.

Class will include instruction, workbook, and styled hands on photoshoot with Ampersand Studios. Learn the basics of exposure– setting your aperture, ISO and shutter speed like a pro to get the best outcome along with a touch on composition, posing, lighting and even editing your images.

Disclaimer ***This class is designed for straight up beginners… If you’re a professional photographer looking to hone your craft, this is not for you. This curriculum is designed for people who simply want to take better photos in their everyday life. We will not be talking about the business of photography. Any skill level is welcome to take the class, just be warned that you might be bored if you already know the basics.***
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Free Childrens’ Event this Saturday 9/17 3:00-5:00 book reading/signing with local author Megan Gregory of her book: Little Bear’s Dreams”. Come have some snacks and enjoy this fun and free event!

Megan Gregory Bio

Megan Gregory was born and raised in Boise, Idaho having graduated from Capital High School and Boise State University.She grew up being encouraged to pursue artistic outlets and attempted to sing in choir and even played in band for several years, but it was always writing, painting, and sketching that she enjoyed most.

After her son was born in 2014, Megan began feeling inspired again and was filled with ideas to capture the memories she and her new family were making.And that is how Little Bear’s Dreams came to be – an idea to permanently remember some of the special moments and love that she, her husband, and their son were experiencing.